Legal Issues Of The Network Of Consumer Protection

In recent years, with the rapid development of Internet technology, the Internetconsumption,which is a new pattern of consumption,is gradually understood, accepted andadapted by most of people.Compared with the traditional consumption,networkconsumption has helped consumers to reduce transaction costs and to expand theconsumers’ choices on goods and services whatever in time and space.It not only made thenetwork consumers enjoy the full range of services which is fast and convenient, but alsobrought enormous economic benefits to the Internet economy.Although the network consumption bring many benefits to people, it also tells us thatwe should see some drawbacks of it.The drawbacks of Internet consumption are mainlyreflected on some problems,which are involved in the protection of networkconsumers.Compared to the traditional consumers, the information asymmetry is moreserious in the process of a virtual network transaction.This kind of asymmetry will putthose network consumers at a more disadvantage which has been in a weak position.Therefore, it is necessary to give network more protection on their rights.But China nowhas not yet established a specified law to protect the rights of network consumers.Althoughthe newly revised consumer protection law in2013has established some articles to protectthe network consumers,which is a improvement on legislation,but some of those article arestill needed to be improved as well as some law in relevant fields.Therefore, it issignificant for us to establish a practical law system on protection of network consumers’rights.This thesis firstly illustrates the problems on protection of network consumers’ rightsin three aspects by the empirical analysis method and the case analysis method.Theproblems on protection of network consumers’ rights mainly involved in three aspects:theestablishment of a contract,the performance of a contract and legal action.After analyzingthe relevant content of protection on network consumers’ rights in the newly revisedconsumer protection law,the thesis points out the deficiency on legislation.Then using thecomparative research method, the thesis describes the advantages of typical legislationsystem of foreign countries for references to China’s legislation.Finally, based on abovedemonstration, the thesis concludes some advices for strengthening the protection ofnetworks consumers’ rights.Some advises are given:the improvement on article of networkconsumers’ rights in the2013revised consumer protection law, the solution to the problemon the protection network consumers’ safety right and the problem involved in legal action as well as the improvement on the network trading environment.